Again funding $100,000 to the chamber of commerce and approving more than $280,000 for furniture at the new jail were among the items discussed by the Jackson County Board of Commissioners Monday night. The BOC will take action on these items when it meets at 6 p.m. on Monday, March 16, at the courthouse. At this week’s meeting, the BOC heard ...
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Approximately 150 people turned out for meeting last week about a possible locations for a new county reservoir, but officials made little headway in gaining access to the sites. The Jackson County Water and Sewerage Authority hosted a three-hour drop-in event at the Jefferson Civic Center. The purposes were to provide information about the ...
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Power has been restored to most areas of Jackson County officials of Jackson EMC said Wednesday morning with only 354 customers in the area still without electricity. Most of that is in the South Jackson area, officials said. In Madison County, some 4,386 JEMC customers remain without power Wednesday morning, down from 8,000 Tuesday afternoon. ...
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Hit with 5"-9" of wet, heavy snow Sunday, thousands of people in Jackson and Madison counties were still without power Monday evening as power company crews worked to restore service from downed power lines in the area. Meanwhile, schools in the Jefferson City School System will resume Tuesday while Madison County schools will again be closed. ...
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Hit with 5"-9" of wet, heavy snow Sunday, thousands of people in Jackson and Madison counties were still without power Monday evening as power company crews worked to restore service from downed power lines in the area. Meanwhile, schools in the Jefferson City School System will resume Tuesday while Jackson and Madison County schools will again ...
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Power was slowely being restored to hard-hit areas of Jackson and Madison counties Tuesday morning after Sunday's snow storm downed trees on powerlines throughout the area. Overnight Monday, JEMC restored power to 6,300 customers, but some 13,000 JEMC customers in the Jackson-Madision area continued to be without power. Meanwhile, Jefferson ...
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Power was slowely being restored to hard-hit areas of Jackson and Madison counties Tuesday afternoon after Sunday's snow storm downed trees on powerlines throughout the area. In a 4 p.m. update from JEMC, the company said it still had 1,943 customers in Jackson County without power and 8,076 in Madison County without power. The JEMC news ...
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All schools in Jackson, Barrow, Banks and Madison counties are closed Monday due to a heavier than expected snow storm that swept across Northeast Georgia Sunday. In addition, some other government offices and businesses will be closed Monday. Numerous wrecks and power outages were reported in the four county area. Under the weight of the heavy ...
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A state of emergency has been declared in Jackson County due to a heavy snow storm that swept across the area Sunday. Schools and county offices are closed Monday as a result of the storm. According to EMS director Steve Nichols, numerous roads are dangerous with ice and trees down. "Several auto accidents are taking place at present," Nichols ...
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